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Position Number: 010130

Department: Facilities Management (Adm)

Employment Type: Permanent - Full-time

Months Per Year: 12

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

+ Serve as maintenance manager of the HVAC , utility plants, plumbing and related shops.

+ Use general knowledge of mechanical engineering to manage the maintenance and repair of HVAC , utilities, and plumbing systems for a large research university campus.

+ Integrate general mechanical engineering knowledge, perspective, and methodology into daily maintenance activities to enhance the lifecycle management of systems and energy conservation.

+ Provide analyses of daily maintenance activities to improve asset management and facilities systems lifecycle performance and cost.

+ Review work order plans for code compliance and best practices.

+ Ensure quality control inspections are completed on work orders by supervisors.

+ Provide technical oversight on all projects involving your shops.

+ Use Building Automation Systems ( BAS ) to detect and diagnose problems and recommend changes to improve the performance of the BAS for your shops.

+ Negotiate contracts for maintenance and provide oversight of the quality, safety and cost of all work performed.

+ Analyze the cost, quality, and timeliness of your shops’ work and implement improvements.

+ Analyze condition monitoring data from thermographic, vibration, oil, ultrasound, and BAS analyses to identify failure modes and develop work plans to prevent them.

+ Interact with customers to ensure their needs are met and manage expectations.

+ Coordinate multi-shop projects.

+ Ensure your shops are trained on RCM , CBM , PMs and maintenance management techniques.

+ Lead root cause analyses.

+ Lead failure mode and effects analyses.

+ Lead teams in emergency operations and in emergency maintenance.

+ Ensure that employees are trained, understand, and comply with University, state, OSHA , NFPA , NEC , ASME , EPA and other governing policies and procedures.

+ Serve as the acting Director of Maintenance in his/her absence.

Minimum Experience / Education:

+ Bachelor’s degree in a mechanical engineering discipline and 10 years experience in commercial facilities maintenance; or equivalent combination of training, education and experience.

+ 10 years supervisory experience.

Preferred Education Skills and Experience:

+ Commercial plumbing experience.

+ Experience operating and maintaining commercial chilled water cooling systems.

+ Experience operating and maintaining commercial hot water heating systems.

+ Experience operating and maintaining complex mechanical ventilation systems.

+ Experience working with building automation systems and controls.

+ Familiarity with commercial facilities commissioning.

+ Project development and management skills.

+ Participation and knowledge of complex commercial facilities commissioning.

+ Reliability centered maintenance experience and familiarity with the use of vibration analysis, ultrasonic analysis and thermographic analysis.

+ Experience managing with an asset management and maintenance management system ( CMMS / EAM ).